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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” As it should be, I think, for a good educational institution.” Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference.

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A conservative think tank just sent 8,000 teachers a new climate denial ‘textbook

Grist

Sterling Burnett, who directs Climate and Environmental Policy for the Heartland Institute and edited “Climate at a Glance,” said he hoped the book would reach educators who are teaching climate change, “not to replace the material they have, but to supplement it.”

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Kids May be Our Best Hope of Getting Through to Climate Deniers

Green Market Oracle

According to a 2018 Gallup poll , there is a global warming age gap. They are aware that we are not doing what we must to address biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, and extreme weather including devastating heat waves. Kids realize that our failure to act puts their futures in jeopardy. Subscribe in a reader

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Newly released video game challenges players to survive the climate apocalypse

AGreenLiving

Inspired by the iconic game The Oregon Trail, which was a hallmark of elementary, middle and high schools from the 1970s to the 1990s, Volk’s game is as an educational survival foray, wherein players are pitted against hunger, thirst, extreme weather and other cataclysmic disasters in a dystopian future ravaged by the excesses of climate change.

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UN: Water infrastructure gap risks fuelling coronavirus and climate crisis

Business Green

Developed by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in collaboration with UN-Water, the report sets out a raft of recommendations for policymakers and business leaders. Given the urgency of the situation, the coming decade needs to be one of action.".

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The 101 on Climate Change

Christopher Kemper

I believe that it will be the educators, technologists, engineers and capitalists that alter the course of our climate trajectory for future generations. But, start with understanding the issue so that you can educate others. For most people, global warming has been an issue that is difficult to grasp?—?oftentimes,

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Environmental Literacy: Altering Humanity’s Course

Green Technology

Will Parish is a credentialed public high school science educator with a 30-year record of innovative accomplishments in the environmental and educational fields. Everything in the news about global warming, pollution, and sea level rise, that’s one side of the story. An Interview with Will Parish.